4 December 2018 - Join us for Gull Day!

Tuesday 4 December 2018

Graham Kerr Building, LT2

Please join us to for our first Gull Day! Together with the Tag-n-Track Team from Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park we are organising a full day of talks and discussions about gulls, with a diversity of speakers covering a range of topics including tracking, gull diet, urban gulls and public engagement. For more information and the full programme see: News & Events

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14 December: Workshop with Professor Richard Phillips

Mon, 12 Nov 2018 13:12:00 GMT

Joint meeting with the Spatial Group on seabird spatial ecology - more details to come soon!

14 December 2018: Christmas Ornithology Lecture - Understanding and mitigating threats to seabirds

Wed, 10 Oct 2018 12:37:00 BST

This year's Christmas Ornithology Lecture will be given by Richard Phillips from the British Antarctic Survey speaking on the topic of "Research to understand and mitigate threats to pelagic seabirds; can we avoid being the albatrosses around their necks?".

4 December 2018 - Gull Day!

Wed, 10 Oct 2018 12:26:00 BST

Please join us to for our first Gull Day! Together with the Tag-n-Track Team from Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park we are organising a full day of talks and discussions about gulls, with a diversity of speakers covering a range of topics including tracking, gull diet, urban gulls and public engagement.

Glasgow Seabird Group contributing to the Seabirds Count

Wed, 10 Oct 2018 14:44:00 BST

This summer the Glasgow Seabird Group helped out contributing to the Seabirds Count - a project aiming to census all seabirds in Britain and Ireland.

12 March 2018 - Talk: Shag diet during 3 decades of rapid environmental change

Thu, 08 Feb 2018 08:48:00 GMT

Please join us to listen to Rich Howells (CEH Edinburgh) give a talk on his project of studying the diet of shags at the Isle of May during a period of rapid environmental change.

12 Feb 2018 - Talk: Tracking lesser black-backed gulls to their wintering grounds

Sun, 28 Jan 2018 12:49:00 GMT

Please join us on the 12th of February at 11am in the Graham Kerr Library to listen to Hayley Douglas talking about tracking lesser black-backed gulls.

26 Nov 2015 - Talk: Investigating human-seabird interactions in coastal seas

Thu, 26 Nov 2015 17:38:00 GMT

Please join us for a research talk "Investigating human-seabird interactions in coastal seas: implications for marine planning" by Dr Maria Bogdanova from CEH Edinburgh.

30th September 2015 - Talk: Life in fickle airspaces

Tue, 22 Sep 2015 15:34:00 BST

Please join us for a special research talk titled “Life in fickle airspaces” by Dr Emily Shepard from Swansea Lab for Animal Movement, University of Swansea

1st September 2015 - visit to SUERC stable isotope lab

Mon, 10 Aug 2015 15:34:00 BST

The Seabird Interest Group and other interested members of the Institute visit the stable isotope lab at SUERC, East Kilbride.

16th July 2015 - seminars on using stable isotopes in ecology

Wed, 17 Jun 2015 15:34:00 BST

Please join us for a Seabird Special Interest Group seminar on the use of stable isotopes in seabird research

13th July 2015 - Talk: Rediscovery and conservation of the NZ storm petrel

Wed, 17 Jun 2015 15:34:00 BST

Please join us for a Seabird Special Interest Group seminar “Rediscovery and conservation of the New Zealand storm petrel” by Alan Tennyson from from the Museum of New Zealand

5th March 2015 - Biologging in seabird research

Wed, 04 Mar 2015 18:56:00 GMT

A programme of talks discussing state of the art technology to address cutting edge problems

31st March – 2nd April, BOU2015 conference, University of Leicester, UK

Tue, 07 Oct 2014 20:22:00 BST

31st March – 2nd April, BOU2015 conference, Birds in time and space: avian tracing and remote sensing, University of Leicester, UK